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In this paper, the author tries to analyze the way in which an analyst understands and manages countertransference during time. The author asks herself in which way the analyst's counterstransference is affected/influenced by his/her professional status (beginner analyst, experienced analyst, belonging to some theoretical psychoanalytical schools, etc); also, if countertransference is affected by some significant events from the analyst's life which can happen during the analysis with a patient.
It is possible/wished/recommended that all these events from the analyst's life should be kept under control by the analyst so that they do not enter the analytical space of the sessions; or, just the opposite, everything that the analyst feels and thinks during the analysis with his/her patients must be taken into consideration and analyzed.
The paper will analyze countertransference from Winnicott's writings ‘The use of the object’ and ‘the mirror role of mother’ and Ogden's writing ‘The analytic third’, ‘The dream-thinking’ and the ‘reverie’.